Very simply stated. If someone has a pre-tax income of $1,000.00 and the tax rate is 30% they would have an after tax income of $700.00 If we lowered the tax to 20% they would have an after tax income of $800. Their after tax income increased $100.00 without them doing anything different. Magnify that …
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There are people on the left that aren’t happy with Obama and people on the right that aren’t happy with Romney. There are people that support third party candidates that can’t gain traction. There are independents and others who feel as though they aren’t represented at all.
Conservatives are forever saying that we must cut taxes on the rich in order to spur investment and create jobs. Despite the obvious recent history that should be evidence enough of the fallacy of that theory, they persist. So I’m going to take another approach. I’m going to use a 24 month period of time …
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While Romney likes to tout is business experience, “rescuing” the Salt Lake City Olympics and as Governor, the truth is much darker. He has done his best to cover his tracks. At each step along the way there are destroyed documents. His version of the story keeps changing as new information comes available. In his …
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Sometimes the level of bullshit rises to a point where it’s not simply enough to call it bullshit. Chris Angelini, Cris (@ConserValidity) Posted Sunday 19th August 2012 from Twitlonger @gemimms @Emperor_Bob Ignorance and stupidity doesn’t change the facts – Educate yourselves Chris if you’re going to call someone out, using words like “Ignorance and stupidity” …
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Customers. What is the one thing every business must have in order to expand? Customers. What is the one thing every business must have in order to hire more people? Customers. How do tax cuts for the rich create customers They don’t How does deregulation create customers? It doesn’t How does government spending create customers? …
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“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” ~ Benjamin Franklin – At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. It’s a good thing that America’s founding fathers like Dr. Franklin understood that in order to survive, then thrive, the citizens of the new nation had to depend …
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Corporatism is the enemy of Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Conservatives are the servants of Corporatism. We are in the midst of a great battle for the future of our country. This isn’t about political parties. This isn’t about individuals or personalities. This is about saving our government and our country, for our children and generations beyond.
The following are excepts from a Facebook conversation. Please feel free to join the conversation. Lisa Murkowski – Today I voted against the Student Loan Bill which would solve one problem by making another worse. Raising taxes on employers will only decrease the chances that they’ll be able to add jobs and hire college graduates. …
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Our spending problem is the bloated Military Budget, Corporate Subsidies, tax advantages for the rich, and preferential treatment of some types of income over income earned by labor. We also have an income problem. We have the lowest federal tax rates since 1950. Tax cuts made the rich richer, the poor poorer, and the middle …